Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

Any highway . . . they all take you to the same place, don't they?

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.